Founded in 1948, manufactures a system of drives, carriages, rails and attachments designed to mechanize welding guns, cutting torches and other hand- held tools. The equipment’s basic motion control concept was born during W.W.II as a means to help mass produce Navy ships at Higgins Industries, a shipbuilder in New Orleans.

BUG-O Systems’ equipment is an inexpensive, modular building block family of portable machines, which provide precise path and constant speed control in any plane or position. These features are particularly desirable to fabricators, shipbuilders and the construction industry. High quality welds/cuts are made utilizing operators to achieve greater efficiency and profitability while decreasing defects and costly rework and repairs.